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IntuitiveGuy☯️ · 14w
Don't want to start the thread but.. yeah, I am happy the protocol is getting more use now. The symbol is "misleading".. in short, we are throwing away a decade of "21M bitcoin hard cap".
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the tagline is the only good argument against 177, but maybe its ok to give up for all the other benefits:

- finally end unit bias
- much better use of the existing Unicode symbol

when people say 10,000 bitcoin they will know what you mean anyways unless you’re saylor. But maybe he should eventually just say 1 trillion bitcoin which properly describes the enormity of it.
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IntuitiveGuy☯️ · 14w
I agree for the unit bias, problem is and was exchanges never started selling sats per dollar, and some like Binance even prefer to sell a scam shitcoin caalled SATS and benefit from it than helping bitcoin adoption. For the use of existing Unicode, I see other problems that could emerge. For examp...
George Vaccaro · 14w
"when people say 10,000 bitcoin they will know what you mean anyways unless you’re saylor." How about when it's 1? "But maybe he should eventually just say 1 trillion bitcoin which properly describes the enormity of it." Try 2.1 quadrillion.
ek · 14w
> when people say 10,000 bitcoin they will know what you mean If instead of changing sats to bitcoin to use ₿—a letter I can’t type on my keyboard but had to copy and paste—we used $ as sats, wouldn’t that also be true? Surely you didn’t pay 60k USD for an eSIM but 60k sats.